German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called for the speedy convening of a new round of talks of the contact group on the settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, reads a posting on the website of the German Federal Foreign Office. “The minister welcomed the recent agreements between the parties to the conflict in...

At night, militants shelled the new terminal of the Donetsk airport from small arms. The ATO press center informs on Facebook. “Militants shelled the new terminal of the Donetsk airport from small arms and also the settlement of Petrovske. From mortars – Pisky and Hranitne twice,” a statement reads.

MPs adopted Ukraine’s state budget for 2015, envisaging the country’s GDP at minus 4.3%, nominal GDP at UAH 1.721 trillion, inflation at 13.1%, and the exchange rate at UAH 17 per U.S. dollar. Law of Ukraine No. 1000 on Ukraine’s state budget for 2015 was supported by 233 lawmakers early on Monday, an Ukrinform correspondent...

The ATO forces suffered no losses last day. Spokesman of the NSDC Information-Analytical Center Andriy Lysenko told a briefing. “Three Ukrainian soldiers were wounded, no killed military were reported,” he said. According to the National Security and Defense Council, attempts of armed provocations against the Ukrainian military...

Three soldiers from the 80th airmobile brigade and one civilian freed from captivity of terrorists without an exchange. This was announced by Adviser of the Deputy Defense Minister Vasyl Budyk on Facebook. “We took four men without the exchange. Three of the 80th airmobile infantry brigade and one civilian. Yuriy Farasey, Yevhen Kozlovsky...

For the past day, militants of the “LPR” eight times shelled the settlements of Stanytsia Luhanska, Krymske, Shchastia, Chornukhine and Popasna with different weapons, including rocket launchers and mortars. Head of the Luhansk regional state administration Hennadiy Moskal wrote on his website. “In the village during the day and last night,...

NATO is not a threat to Russia. NATO Spokeswoman Oana Lungescu flatly denied that the Western military bloc was a threat to any nation, dw writes. Her statement was a response to Russia’s military doctrine that lists the Western alliance as its top security threat. “”Any steps taken by NATO to ensure the security of its members...

In Kyiv, the uniform patrol service will work instead of the state traffic police and the patrol-duty service from January 20, 2015. Advisor to the Interior Minister Zorian Shkiriak said, the Interior Ministry press service informs. “On January 20, in Kyiv, the transition and reformatting of the state traffic police and the patrol-duty...

In the town of Krasny Luch, Luhansk region, more than 100 Russian tanks are dislocated, including 30 of them are in the stage of readiness number one. Head of the non-governmental organization Right Cause Dmytro Snehiriov told an Ukrinform correspondent, with reference to reconnaissance data of that non-governmental organization. Now, “there are...